The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 32
So the Many-furred Creature lived for a long time in great poverty.
Who acts: furred Creature · What happens: fur, live
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (furred Creature), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Creature | det |
| 3 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 furred | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Many | punct |
| 5 | furred | fur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Creature | amod |
| 6 | Creature | Creature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 poverty | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poverty | amod |
| 14 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fur | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | live | past | the furred Creature | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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